His Name Is Alive

Stars on ESP (4AD)
by Joshua Brown

“This world is not my home, I’m just passing through.” This is head and shoulders above your average dream-pop recording. Daydreaminess and artiness, two characteristics usually eclipsing or exclusive of one another, here experience a mutual amplification. Too unconscious to be a lo-fi masterpiece and too obscure to be ignored, Stars on ESP is a wonderfully tedious and stupidly illuminating package of Sweet ‘n’ Low girlie vocals and surfing Beatles playing Fisher-Price equipment.